Picture Ideas
Calendar and Math Bulletin Board

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Unit Theme Essential Questions Display
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Lunch Count Graph
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Word Wall
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Classroom Library
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Guided Math Centers
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Includes:
math tubs
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math with technology
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teacher center
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iPod/iPad center
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math journals
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Writing Center Activities

word hunt
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word families
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listening center
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rainbow write
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Bulletin Boards

hallway display
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fiction vs. non-fiction
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phonics bulletin board
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Graphic Organizers
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Lesson Activities
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In this fall activity students will use their schema (their existing knowledge) of pumpkins and we will write these fact down and begin making a anchor chart. Then I will read a book about pumpkins to the class. After reading the book we will apply what they learned about pumpkins from the book to the anchor chart under the heading "New Learning". The leaf of the pumpkin will hold common misconceptions about pumpkins (they are NOT vegetables, etc.). The students will then compare and contrast pumpkins to apples in a cute fruit themed venn diagram. We will follow up the venn diagram activity with a writing activity where the students will write a few sentences about the comparisons they noticed between apples and pumpkins. They will create a pumpkin visual to accompany their writing and it will be displayed in the classroom.



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In this adorable math activity each student will receive a “Franken”line, a little Frankenstein eraser, two dice, and a recording sheet. They will start at the point of origin yes and roll their dice. They will then walk the line that number of spaces and placed their little Frank on the number on which they landed. Then they will count up one number and use that in a sentence. For example, if they landed on 6, they would move up one space to 7. Then I will have them tell me, “7 is one more than 6”. After they record this, I will have them return to the point of origin, roll their dice again, and move their Frank to that number. They will find that number on the number line and then tell me the number that was 1 less than what they rolled….and write in a sentence what that was. {5 is one less than 6}. After we do this a few times, the kids will record their work and then make their own little Frankenstein as a visual connection. Through doing this activity the students will become familiar with the number line and the corresponding math vocabulary.